Marriages in Aleppo, Syria

Introduction

Jews have lived in Syria for over 3,000 years.
Most lived in one of the two main centers along the caravan routes:
Damascus or Aleppo (Aleppo is also known as "Aram Soba" or,
in Arabic, as حَلَب "Haleb").
As is typical of other regions of the Ottoman Empire, Aleppo
had no official birth, marriage, or death records.
Some records were kept by various rabbis, and a few of these
have survived and are located either in manuscript or on
microfiche in the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem.
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Transliteration

These records have been translated and transliterated as part of
the Sephardic Heritage Project, with donations from members of
Brooklyn's Syrian Community, under the supervision of Sarina Roffé
(Brooklyn, NY). The original records were written in a
Hebrew Rashi special Aleppoan script as well as Judeo-Arabic.
They were translated to Modern Hebrew by Rabbi Abraham Ades of
Bnei Brak, Israel. Then under the supervision of Galit Mizrahi
(Jerusalem, Israel), the records were translated into English and
converted into a database.
Then they were edited by Sarina Roffé.
Since the records have been through so many versions, it is possible
mistakes were made. Original versions of these records can be
accessed in the sources provided in Israel.

Sources

Original versions of these records can be accessed in the sources
provided in Israel. The records are not inclusive of all marriages
and are from the following sources:

Eulogies from Hedaya's Collection.

Manuscript 43766: notes from various Eulogies.

National School Manuscript 72038: Sermons and Eulogies of
Rabbi Yeshaya Dabbah from Aleppo.

List of names from register of Hevra Kadisha [burial society] of
Sephardim in Jerusalem (a copy is in Rabbi Efraim Laniado's collection).

Manuscript 72024: Historical List from Haleb (in Arabic), Leaf 3-16.

The collection of Prof. Meir Benayahu.
We thank Prof. Benayahu for his kind permission to copy, translate,
and make searchable on the web the Aleppo marriage records marked
in the search results as "National Library and Benayahu Library,
43737-43739".